More information : (SO 40128689) Castle Ring (NAT) Earthwork (NR). (1)
Castle Ring, Edgton; a small promontory fort. The NW angle of a
high part of the ridge is enclosed by an angular bank, still up
to 8 ft high although reduced by cultivation, with faint traces of
a ditch. The entrance is to the south, between the end of the bank
and the edge of the hill. (2)
Castle Ring, a small subtriangular earthwork of uncertain date,
is reported to have been bull-dozed away. (3)
A small sub-triangular earthwork measuring 70.0 m NE-SW by 50.0 m
transversely. The W side is bounded by precipitous natural slopes
and has no artificial defences. The NE side comprises a tree-
covered rampart, 11.0 m in width, 1.0 m high internally and
1.6 m high externally. There are unsurveyable traces of an
outer ditch. The SE side has been reduced and spread by the plough
and is arable land. The rampart is up to 14.0 m in width but no
more than 0.4 m in height. A rounded termination at the W end
suggests the original entrance to have been between it and the
natural slopes.
The work is situated upon a ridge with extensive views to the NW,
NE and SE. It is not a fort, more a defended settlement probably
of the EIA. Name, Castle Ring, confirmed. Nothing additional on A.Ps. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
SO 401 869. Castle Ring, Horderley. Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 0.10ha. (5)
SO 4012 2869. Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 700m west of Horderley Farm. Scheduled (RSM) (6)
The south eastern part of the enclosure is visible as an earthwork on the aerial photographs cited in authority 4, and has been mapped by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. The surviving bank is 50m long. (7) |